God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
BRENNAN MANNINGThe Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
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If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, ‘No, but I’m trying.
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I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
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The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
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When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God’s gift of grace.
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The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
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Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
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Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in the presence of God.
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Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ
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We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.
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I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
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The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can’t save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.
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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
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Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
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To lend each other a hand when we’re falling, perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.
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